Posted by Marvin from cache03.netway.at (195.96.10.36)on May 24, 1998 at 08:49:31:
In Reply to: Update on BigRRed.... posted by Marvin on May 21, 1998 at 14:12:53:
Sorry to delay the release again a little bit,
but I have to work all this weekend since I
have to go on a business trip tomorrow(monday).
Furthermore today I had a strange win95 crash,
which cost me another half day....(thanks
to ERD I could recover, somehow....) -
I suspect ICQ to be the reason for this total
crash (was the only change of my working
environment for the last weeks)... very
annoying....
There is still some good news, though:
Firstly, yesterday I managed to do some long
planned optimizations on the texture
installation code, and it all works now rather
well...
And, secondly, I tested the demo of MOTORHEAD
and was very pleased: without almost any
change, the wrapper runs this game really
well, i.e. fast and very nice looking (at least
the interactive demo, the self-running demo
with other cars is much slower....)
But I still will have to work on this demo
to get rid of some problems: transparency of
the trees doesn't work yet, and in some
camera-views the clearing of the Z buffer
is not ok (looks terrible, then...).
Furthermore, the fog mode is not supported...
But all in all, it was a rather positive
surprise for me.....
...please hold the line....